Joining the pokerprolife team

Joined up with pokerprolife A couple of weeks ago an online pal of mine Peter Golob, one of the biggest names in online poker in his native Slovenia, and who is also one of the owners of a popular poker affiliate site http://www.pokerpro.si for Slovenian players asked me to join their team, as they are looking to expand beyond their region [...]

Studying PHP on w3schools

Study a new programming language I’ve mentioned before, both here and on the pokeraffiliatelistings forum http://www.pokeraffiliatelistings.com/forums that web coding is perhaps my weakest point as a webmaster. I clearly need to improve in this area. I’m out of date The last time I studied any new language was Vb.net and that’s over 5 years ago, [...]

Choosing a WordPress Theme

Issues with Ikarus I mentioned previously in the “Advertising platform problems put me off working on the site” post that I was having issues with the Ikarus Theme. Ikarus theme not working Basically since the update to the latest WordPress version 2.8 (2.8.4 at time of writing) the Ikarus theme is basically broken in several [...]

Advertising platform problems put me off working on the site

Gave OpenX a shot I had planned on doing lots of work on making a poker website this month but it never happened for a few reasons. Firstly I decided to try out the OpenX http://www.openx.com advertising platform, but I had more difficulties with it than I had bargained for, and it ended up taking up [...]

Spanish Poker Tour Aranjuez II Madrid

Getting personal Sorry for the delay in posting. This post is a bit more of a personal blog type post. Going to keep these to a minimum but don’t think it’s too bad writing the occasional one. [% oiopub-banner-2-left %] Finished just out of the money AGAIN!!! Anyway once again I was in Madrid for [...]

A detailed look at the 8 points of poker seo guru Randy Ray.

On Randy’s site http://www.pokerseo.org/ he lists 8 key points that a poker webmaster should follow, I’m going to take a look at each one, talk about it in general and also in specific terms to my making a poker website blog. Plan your SEO before launching your site  Well I have to admit I didn’t [...]

The best way to display your email address on a website?

Spam, whatcha gonna do? I didn’t have my email address up on the blog from the start, this was for a reason. Spam is a major problem for all users and webmasters especially are exposed to this, as they will by and large wish to be contactable, and so have to make their email address [...]

Thoughts about web design issues for a new webmaster

Blog it yourself In this entry I’d like to talk about my thoughts on web design issues for a new webmaster, but firstly I’m going to talk about the reasons why I decided to do this blog entirely on my own. Get in the ‘professionals’? I could have taken the option to bring in outside professionals [...]

New theme

Introducing Ikarus White Yippeeeeeee. I’ve finally gotten around to changing the theme I’m using on makingapokerwebsite.com to something a bit funkier than the more staid original Kubrik theme. I’m using the Ikarus White theme from http://www.wpthemespress.com/. Looking sexy in white? Of all the ones I’ve tried it seems to match the closest to what I would [...]

Made it to top 30 in google.com

Making it on Google A few days ago when I did a search on google.com, as I have done a few times since I started this site for the terms ‘making, poker, website’. I spotted that google had finally found me, in fact I was in the first 30 sites, not bad going I think for this blog which [...]